Advent ’21: Challenge and Activity Calendar

Each year I do an advent calendar filled with challenges and activities. It's a tradition I built into our lives knowing that both children would have issues surrounding Christmas and that tradition would be key to our survival through it! I was trying to write everyday, as it happened. However, due to a medical emergency, … Continue reading Advent ’21: Challenge and Activity Calendar →

Advent 2018

I know that it's super late to be talking about what we got up to over advent, but as I have said in some previous posts, we haven't had the best of Winters... not that Winter is easy for anyone, but anxiety is especially high in our house from approximately October through to mid January … Continue reading Advent 2018 →

Christmas and New Year 2018

A Christmas decision Logan and Caitlin were very insistent that we have Christmas at home, which in some ways is great - it's so expensive to go away and not be able to join in with anything for Christmas, due to the sheer volume of other people being about. However, being at home for Christmas … Continue reading Christmas and New Year 2018 →

Christmas Day 2017

Christmas day this year was kept relatively small - it had to be, we were going away and had to fit everything in our boot. It meant that we were literally left with stuff from Santa and our stockings. Everything else given before we came away was opened ahead of time. Anything else had to … Continue reading Christmas Day 2017 →

Advent

For advent, we try to take the focus away from it being so much about "ooooo people are going to give me stuff" and add messages of family, charity and special time. So to combat that, alongside a chocolate calendar, the children get a challenge and activity calendar. Each day they get a little envelope … Continue reading Advent →

Review: Christmas at Bluestone

We needed to find something to do for Christmas that would be easy to dip in and out of depending on the mental state and capacity of the children. Having been to Bluestone National Park Resort several times before, and knowing the setup, and the children having visited and enjoyed it... we figured it was … Continue reading Review: Christmas at Bluestone →